AMNH IP- Mackenzie (CC Intern) at the Museum (AMNH)
It has been a wonderful last few weeks at AMNH! I went on a tour around the Vertebrate Paleontology Department and got to walk through their fossil preparation lab as well as some of their collections. I was a fossil preparation intern at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science a couple years ago, and got to explore some of their vertebrate paleontology collections during my time there. Still, seeing the process of removing a fossil from the surrounding matrix, or the final product safely stored in collections, never ceases to amaze me. Sauropod tail bones, Late Jurassic, Wyoming Holotype skull of Anchiceratops ornatus , Late Cretaceous, Alberta Background: Skull model from original Brontosaurus mount (or facsimile thereof) Middle ground; Dinosaur long bone Foreground: Cast of Late Jurassic Camarasaurus skull The collections space we were...